Benjamin Prows, a 30-year-old slackliner who once juggled on the beach before his repeated clashes with local police, remembers that day vividly. "There I was, just a couple of weeks after Memorial Day, hanging out on the beach, and I saw her just cleaning it up. And I was totally weirded out that they were making her clean it up."

He says a crowd gathered, as one of the officers pointed down at the woman below, cleaning up his horse's feces.

"People were looking at it and trying to figure out why he wouldn't come down and help" her clean up the shit, Prows said. "He pointed his finger and told her to get every last bit."

And she did. After several minutes of scooping the manure into a baggie, the woman, clad in flip-flops and a tank top, disposed of the shit.

New Times contacted the Fort Lauderdale Police Department late last week and asked whether this sort of thing is standard protocol for cops astride horse, and we haven't gotten a response.

I would have refused. Arrest me. Let's see what the courts have to say about it. Compelling a citizen to do work against their will under the threat of punishment and without compensation is slavery and a total violation of a citizen's civil rights.

@verdisvioletta You gleaned all that from this video? See the story on Channel 6 for the reporting of the facts by a responsible and ethical journalist. When you get your news from a half rate blog you run the risk of people thinking your lacking intelligence.

i spent an entire summer as a little kid on a farm in germany and i loved it - OTHERWISE you know how many girlie girls i've seen since with their horse sized dogs bagging crap ? ! ? - so what's the difference ..............it's all pipes